Abstract: A signage system and method for providing information wirelessly to the signage system for display on digital monitors. The signage system includes a stand and at least one display mounted on the stand. The stand includes a base, an extension, and an A-frame mount connected to the top of the extension, the A-frame mount having a first face and a second face each extending upwards at an angle from the A-frame base. The first face and the second face are configured to receive digital monitors thereon. The signage system further includes additional faces on both the top and bottom portions for receiving multiple additional advertising displays.

Abstract: A system and method for providing reusable bags is disclosed. The system may include a reusable bag deployment station that allows users to receive the reusable bags and to return the reusable bags. The system may track the usage of the reusable bags.

Abstract: A vending machine is provided with an internal product holding assembly where product to be vended is held or stacked within each of a plurality of product holding compartments formed by a plurality of spaced apart stacking walls. Compartment depth is variable, so as to dispense varying length products, by a movable rear wall movably mounted to one side of a stacking wall so as to be incrementally adjustable within the compartment between a plurality of selected fore and aft positions. The stacking walls have a hollow interior housing an adjusting mechanism for incrementally moving the depth controlling rear wall, with the adjusting mechanism being operable from the front of the product holding assembly and retainable at a selected position.

Abstract: An access control device for persons designed as a turnstile (1) or a device for counting persons designed as a turnstile (1) is proposed which comprises a housing (2) in which at least one drive is arranged and which comprises two barrier arms (3, 4) which can be driven by at least one drive, which can be driven and controlled independently of one another and at the same speed or at a different speed.

Abstract: A data generating device for use with a coin mechanism of a bulk vending machine, is provided. In all of the embodiments, the invention uses a standard coin mechanism of a bulk vending machine, which in its normal operation is received into an opening in the bulk vending machine, and a data generating device in working relation with the coin mechanism. The data generating device, will be able to receive, store and generate various types of information relevant to owners/operators of bulk vending machines, including but not limited to, day and/or time of particular vends, particular machine from which the vend took place, particular location/owner/operator of machine from which each vend originated, and the identity of the person collecting the money from the machine, while also allowing for the multiple hook-up of numerous data generating devices positioned on numerous machines found in one location so as to achieve a report on all vends from all machines.

Abstract: A coin counter is provided for push-pull coin vending machines, arcade machines and pay-per-use appliances. The counter comprises a bracket assembly having first and second chambers. The first chamber for receiving, processing and expelling a coin, and the second chamber having a switch assembly which is interactive with the coins moving through the first chamber by means of an actuator arm so as to register counts on a connected numeric display. The counter further comprises a stop which receives the weight of the coins processed through the machine and also redirects the coins, allowing the actuator arm to rotate in a reduced arc than the prior art.

Abstract: The invention relates to an article-dispensing machine. The inventive machine comprises: a structure (1), a removable container (2) for articles, and a dispensing mechanism on the base of the container (2), which is actuated by an actuation shaft that is coupled to the shaft of a coin or token selector (6) which is mounted in the structure (1) in order to dispense one or more articles from the container (2) through a delivery outlet (7) following the introduction of one or more coins or tokens. According to the invention, when the door (15) is in the closed position, a single closure device (55), which is associated with said door (15), can be used to lock the container (2), the coin selector (6) and a coin or token collection box (52) in the respective operating positions thereof. When the aforementioned door (15) is open, the container (2) can be refilled or removed, the coin selector (6) can be removed and the collection box (52) can be accessed without the use of tools.

Abstract: A data generating device 300 for use in combination with a coin mechanism 100 of a bulk vending machine 10, is provided. The combination uses a standard coin mechanism of a bulk vending machine, which in its normal operation is received into an opening in the bulk vending machine. The coin mechanism has a selectively rotatable shaft 110 extending axially therefrom, which has mounted therearound, a portion of the data generating device.

Abstract: The coin sorting device comprises: a body (1); a coin put-in port (4) for putting a coin in; a coin sorting handle (5) which can be rotated; a coin turn table (7) which can be rotated according to a rotation of the coin sorting handle (5) and comprises a coin receiving portion (20) for receiving a put-in coin; a rocking member (21) which can rock around a shaft (21a) which is attached to the coin turn table (7), for rocking so that a top end portion of the rocking member (21) is pressed to move in a radial outer direction by a periphery of a normal coin which is received by the coin receiving portion (20); and a stopper (31) which is attached to the body (1), for preventing a rotation of the coin turn table (7) by hitting the top end portion of the rocking member (21) against an end portion (31a) of the stopper (31) when a normal coin is not received by the coin receiving portion (20), while for allowing the rotation of the coin turn table (7) without hitting the top end portion of the rocking member (21) whi

Abstract: A coin discriminating device for discriminating put-in coins into a normal coin and a smaller coin, in which the maximum number of normal coins to be put-in can be easily changed. The coin discriminating device includes a turn plate having a cut-out portion and a coin discriminating pawl portion on a periphery thereof. A plurality of coin discriminating levers, each of which has an engaging portion able to engage with the coin discriminating pawl portion, abut against a periphery of corresponding received put-in coins in the cut-out portion, respectively. A biasing member biases a free end of the coin discriminating levers to a side of the turn plate, and a handle is provided for rotating the turn plate. A regulating member regulates a number of normal coins to be put in the cut-out portion of the turn plate, and a setting member is provided for setting the number of normal coins to be put-in.

Abstract: A rotary coin mechanism is provided with a braking system in which one end of a stationary brake arm is anchored to the frame of the mechanism. The other end of the brake arm provides a breaking ring which surrounds the hub of the drive gear and applies a compressive force thereto, to frictionally restrain the drive gear and thus prevent the coin mechanism from free-wheeling rotation. In the preferred embodiment the braking ring is open at one end and merges into a bifurcated stem which provides an adjusting screw to adjust the compressive force applied by the braking ring.

Abstract: A coin receiving mechanism for a bulk vending machine and a method for operation thereof comprising a face plate; a coin wheel received in an indention formed in a backside of the face plate, the coin wheel formed therein a first coin slot for receiving coins; and a biased pawl movable between a first position and a second position and located in a recess formed in a backside of the face plate, the pawl having a secondary beak formed therein, wherein the secondary beak bears against an edge of a coin in the first coin slot as the coin passes.

Abstract: An improved bulk vending machine coin mechanism and counter combination is provided.

Abstract: An improved bulk vending machine coin mechanism and counter combination is provided. The combination coin mechanism and coin counter comprises a coin mechanism designed to be partially received into an opening in a bulk vending machine, having a selectively rotatable cam. The coin counter is attached to a portion of the coin mechanism inside of the bulk vending machine, and has a numeric display and a pivotally mounted switch connected to the display by at least one lead. A portion of the switch is in contact with the cam, which, due to its eccentric shape, causes the switch to pivot upon the rotation of the cam, causing the numeric display to advance one number for each full rotation of the cam.

Abstract: A coin mechanism includes a coin conveyor provided with a hub on its front face, which rotates in a recess formed in the rear face of the cover plate. The hub reinforces the structural integrity of the coin conveyor, allowing the mechanism to accommodate large coins without diminishing the reliability of the rotational locking mechanism. Preferably the recess is dimensioned as a bearing for the frontal hub, which secures the coin conveyor against shifting due to wearing of parts so that the mechanism retains a high tolerance for measuring the diameter of the coin over a longer period of time.

Abstract: The invention provides a rotary coin mechanism in which the mechanism is provided with a boss which projects into the rotational path of the token. The boss allows rotation of the token carrier only if a token seated in the token receptacle is provided with a recess or groove complimentary to the boss and configured to approximate the rotational path of the token. In the preferred embodiment the groove has a first portion which is in line with the boss and a second portion which is offset from the first portion and connected thereto by a cam surface. As the token cycles past the boss, the boss passes from the first portion into the second portion of the groove and lifts the token within the token receptacle at the perimeter measuring point, so that only if the second portion of the groove is precisely positioned in the face of the token will the perimeter measuring device allow the token to pass.

Abstract: A coin mechanism for a vending machine comprises a cylinder rotatable in a passageway within a housing to release vended product to a purchaser. Operation of the mechanism requires insertion of purchase coins into coin slots accessible when the cylinder partially protrudes from the housing. The cylinder is thereafter substantially completely inserted into the housing and rotated by means of a handle located on one end thereof. Upon rotation of the cylinder, the coins prevent engagement of locking pawls mounted in the housing with either of two separate mechanism-blocking shoulders located on the cylinder. The end of the cylinder opposite the handle is connected to a coupler member, which in turn is fastened to a spiral product coil, rotation of the cylinder causing rotation of the coil and the release of product therefrom. The coupler member also includes a ratchet wheel which cooperates with a pawl in the housing to prevent improper rotation of the cylinder.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a coin rejector for accepting multiple coins. Upon sequential insertion of two coins of the desired size, a customer can rotate a handle to operate a vending machine. The device employs a rotatable wheel which accepts the disks, positions them adjacently edge-to-edge such that the outer edge of the second disk disables a blocking member which otherwise prevents vending, and deposits the disks into a collection chamber.

Abstract: A coin-operated particulate product vending machine, such as for candy, nuts and the like, has a horizontally disposed elongate cylindrical product dispensing chamber having a cylindrical tumbler rotatably disposed therein with an aperture for receiving and dispensing particulate product. A plurality of flexible elongate members are disposed about the interior surface of the product dispensing chamber which brush the exterior surface of the tumbler as it rotates from the product receiving mode to the product dispensing mode. The flexible members meter the product flowing into the tumbler and prevent product from escaping around the sides of the tumbler. They also prevent the product from passing through the tumbler from the dispensing chamber to a discharge chute as the tumbler is rotated. The tumbler also has a slideably mounted plunger for varying the size of the tumbler product containing chamber.

Abstract: Disclose is a coin-operated dispensing mechanism, a basic element of which is a disc-like, coin-receiving wheel having at least a first perimetrical coin-receiving receptacle, the thickness of which is substantially equal to a plural multiple of the thickness of a coin of predetermined denomination. The first receptacle is dimensioned for receiving a number of coins in face-to-face relationship, the number being equal to the plural multiple. It is disclosed that the thickness of the wheel equals the thickness of the receptacle, so that the receptacle extends from one face of the wheel to the other. The mechanism also includes a system of pawls or dogs which prevent undesired rotation of the wheel, including a coin dog or pawl and an independently-functioning auxiliary coin dog or pawl which prevents dispensing rotation of the wheel if only one coin instead of two is placed in the coin-receiving receptacle.